Product Description: Superintendent Luis Bernal, of the Spanish General Directorate of Security, is in Cadiz on very personal business - wishing his pregnant mistress bon voyage to her new job in Gran Canaria whilst raising the tricky subject of a divorce with his seriously religious wife, who is spending Easter in retreat at The Convent of the Palm...read more

Luis Bernal, Spain's most dedicated and un-flappable policeman, frightened of nothing except his increasingly empty marriage and the demands of his adoring mistress, is despatched from Madrid to the Costa del Sol following a high-level alert that the Basque terrorist movement ETA are about to launch a bombing campaign in and on the Costa's tourist-crowded beaches. A local detective is murdered and the bombs begin to go off. Even the stately Bernal is a victim, but as the hunt for the terrorists intensifies, he and his team find themselves enmeshed in a different case which could be just as dangerous, just as deadly. Why have several tourists (all young males) mysteriously disappeared without trace in a relatively small area of Torremolinos? Could it be that the self-styled 'Angel of Torremolinos' is anything but an angel of mercy.....? David Serafin's Luis Bernal thrillers were widely praised for their "informed relish for local colour and customs" and the author's ability "to mix subtle characterisation with a jolting plot". It was the British newspaper The Observer which described Luis Bernal as a "superpolicia" of crime fiction.

Product Description: Almost a decade before Donna Leon and Michael Dibdin began to write crime novels set in Italy, and two decades before Robert Wilson created Spanish detective Javier Falcon, there was David Serafin and Superintendent Luis Bernal. During the period of Spanish history known as 'The Transition' following the death of General Franco, the return of the monarchy and the move to parliamentary democracy (1975-1982), Serafin's amiable and very human detective Luis Bernal has to accept that at the end of a dictatorship, all crimes are political...read more

Sent to Torremolinos as part of an antiterrorist unit out to stop a threatened Basque bombing spree, Madrid detective Luis Bernal finds himself up against a vicious psychopath responsible for the disappearance of several teenage tourists

Superintendent Bernal, a police officer in the Spanish Canary Islands searches desperately for his kidnapped pregnant mistress, Consuelo, while investigating a deadly plot against the forthcoming presidential visit

Spain's Inspector Bernal searches for a killer who leaves the bodies of his victims, all young women, on Madrid's underground metro trains

Inspector Bernal of the Spanish police undertakes to uncover a complex conspiracy that threatens to undo the country's very government